Colorwash Bargello Quilts

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Summary: Outstanding book packed with ideas!
Review: Colorwash Bargello Quilts is one of the best quilting books I've read. As a relatively new quilter with 40+ years of sewing experience, I constantly battle the color rules for garment sewing when I'm working on a quilt. Beth Williams' book has one of the easiest discussions of choosing colors for quilts that I've read. I have constructed one of the projects and look forward to doing many more. Beth's book makes the details of quiltmaking and quilting very understandable.

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I never thought it would be this easy. It took just a little over two days, yes days to complete this lovely quilt. I did Monet and it was so unbelievably easy.

I just love bargello now!

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Summary: Great Intoduction to Bargello Quilting
Review: I totally enjoyed this book! Although I have been quilting for a few years, I had never tried a "bargello". Beth William's explanations made everything from choosing fabrics to construcing the quilt easy to understand. She explained how color, value, and visual texture work together to create quilts with great visual impact. Throughout the book, tips were included which were helpful for not only this type of quilt--they would work with most other types as well. This book is one that I will use and reuse.

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Summary: Colorwash Bargello
Review: When I first received the book, I thought, there is absolutely "no way" I can do this. I had never done any strip peacing work before. But, this book took me step by step through the strip peacing, Bargello process. Beth's thoughts and words about color and value are more thorough than anything I learned in college art classes. One could use the book for color theory alone. Beth's approach to Bargello is almost a "trust me" theory. I honestly did have my doubts but I followed her explicit instructions faithfully and my "Star Kindler" top is nearly complete. And it is fabulous beyond anything I could have hoped for or imagined.

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Summary: The Complex Made Easy!
Review: When I first received the book, I thought, there is absolutely "no way" I can do this. I had never done any strip peacing work before. But, this book took me step by step through the strip peacing, Bargello process. Beth's thoughts and words about color and value are more thorough than anything I learned in college art classes. One could use the book for color theory alone. Beth's approach to Bargello is almost a "trust me" theory. I honestly did have my doubts but I followed her explicit instructions faithfully and my "Star Kindler" top is nearly complete. And it is fabulous beyond anything I could have hoped for or imagined.

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Summary: The Complex Made Easy!
Review: Wow! This book is a genuine treasure. Like the other reviewers, I have a lot of sewing experience but have not done much quilting. I made 'Cascade' and could not believe how easy it was -- and how much fun, too. This book is well laid out which makes it easy to find what you're looking for, and easy to follow the amazingly simple steps.